Who are you paying??

[Geminye]

When you find a scroll and want to learn the spell... who TF are you paying 25/50 gold? It's stupid. Why? You found a scroll and you read it, study it and learn it. WTF is this stupid paying gold to learn it thing? Who TF are you paying? it's so fqn stupid.

[Daniel_USA]

you never played dnd....
its to pay for materials needed to cast the spell and magic ink and parchment that you use to inscribe it into your wizard book...

[BeautifulFlowerField]

maybe it represents the cost of research? materials, components, books, etc required to study the spell from the scroll?

[andreasmasque]

This is to represent the material cost of ink and paper to inscribe it in your spellbook. In D&D this is bought in advance and then copied but in the game this would add another logistical layer (spell components are already not included in BG3 to not make it a logistical nightmare) for the wizard class

[Dera]

The reason you pay gold is following 5e logic. You aren't paying anyone per say, it is to account for the special, expensive, ink you have to use as a wizard to store all the properties of the spell into your spellbook. You cant just use any old normal ink, it doesn't store the weave aspect of spells, making them useless.

[Deylendor]

I'ts not stupid. It's convenient.

Like otherd before me said. It is to pay for the materials needed to transcribe the spell.

[Devious Bec]

Originally posted by Geminye:

You're a yoda.

[Uvirith]

Originally posted by Geminye:

Originally posted by Daniel_USA:

you never played dnd....
its to pay for materials needed to cast the spell and magic ink and parchment that you use to inscribe it into your wizard book...

that isn't stupid af. you have to carry all of this stuff around to sell eventually but magically you can buy ink and parchment... for some reason to read a fuqn scroll in the middle of a dungeon. Are you just stupid because you're a fanboi or just trolling me?
It's still fuqn stupid. You're just throwing money into the air and it magically gives you these materials you need to read a fqn scroll but you still have 100 lbs of nonsense to sell somewhere.
You're a yoda.
you're all fanbois or solid yodas. a bunch of geniuses. it's inconsistent af. you have to sell odds and ends somewhere but for some reason you don't need to carry around mats to learn scrolls you can buy the ♥♥♥♥ outta thin air. fqn yodas missing my point entirely. dumb

Roleplay a little. Imagine your Wizard has to buy that stuff whenever he has the chance and carries it with him together with his Spellbook.

[Jardenon]

Welcome to D&D son.

[Dylan]

This is literally just a feature of DND it's meant to represent the fact you have to buy ink and paper to inscribe the spell. The game was targeted towards this niche of DND players dont complain just because you don't play it LMAO.

[Baneken]

Mechanically the cost is there to make sure that a wizard always has a cost associated with upgrading his equipment and utility. Hope you also noticed that characters no longer buy normal arrows they just "have them" at their disposal from their hammer space or that one character can happily lug around as many backpacks as he damn well pleases. Even more strange is your camp with NPC's that just appears out of no where that's even more weird then you running off to buy magical ink in the middle of adventure or that gold doesn't actually weigh anything.

[Dylan]

Originally posted by Geminye:

Originally posted by Daniel_USA:

you never played dnd....
its to pay for materials needed to cast the spell and magic ink and parchment that you use to inscribe it into your wizard book...

that isn't stupid af. you have to carry all of this stuff around to sell eventually but magically you can buy ink and parchment... for some reason to read a fuqn scroll in the middle of a dungeon. Are you just stupid because you're a fanboi or just trolling me?
It's still fuqn stupid. You're just throwing money into the air and it magically gives you these materials you need to read a fqn scroll but you still have 100 lbs of nonsense to sell somewhere.
You're a yoda.
you're all fanbois or solid yodas. a bunch of geniuses. it's inconsistent af. you have to sell odds and ends somewhere but for some reason you don't need to carry around mats to learn scrolls you can buy the ♥♥♥♥ outta thin air. fqn yodas missing my point entirely. dumb

lmao actual ape logic

[Divolg]

Originally posted by Geminye:

missing my point entirely. you guys are geniuses

The only one missing anything in this thread is you. People already explained, a dozen time over, what that gold cost represent. Just because you, for some f*king reason, disagree with that explanation doesn't make it wrong.

[ownthesky]

Originally posted by Geminye:

Originally posted by Daniel_USA:

you never played dnd....
its to pay for materials needed to cast the spell and magic ink and parchment that you use to inscribe it into your wizard book...

that isn't stupid af. you have to carry all of this stuff around to sell eventually but magically you can buy ink and parchment... for some reason to read a fuqn scroll in the middle of a dungeon. Are you just stupid because you're a fanboi or just trolling me?
It's still fuqn stupid. You're just throwing money into the air and it magically gives you these materials you need to read a fqn scroll but you still have 100 lbs of nonsense to sell somewhere.
You're a yoda.
you're all fanbois or solid yodas. a bunch of geniuses. it's inconsistent af. you have to sell odds and ends somewhere but for some reason you don't need to carry around mats to learn scrolls you can buy the ♥♥♥♥ outta thin air. fqn yodas missing my point entirely. dumb...
why not make us carry the mats around just like a thief's gear? We're carrying around 9 fqn swords, 50 fqn books, 3 chest armors, some pants, 10 potions, etc etc... but we shld suspend our disbelief because God forbid we have to buy or find and carry some mats to learn a spell from a scroll... ya could fix it by just letting us read the fqn scroll we had to search to find anyway. This is stupid, obviously unrealistic, inconsistent ♥♥♥♥. Worse than not having the option to tilt the camera view. You ppl are incredible yodas.

Tl;dr guy is devastated to learn that his fantasy game isn’t a realistic depiction of reality

[ownthesky]

Originally posted by Geminye:

I love when the morons of the world retort with - derp it's a game. how could it be realistic? upplmaketheworldmoredifficultfortherestofus

Brb writing a four paragraph thesis about how unacceptable it is that no one is seen graphically pinching off a log into a medieval toilet

[DisTer]

We're at a point where they're forcing dnd rules so hard into video-games it starts to be ridiculous...

We're buying stuff to learn a spell? Lol... Then why aren't we buying stuff to unlock doors or disarm traps? Why do we need a showel or healing potion when we could just spend gold?

Same thing for long rest, it make sense in pnp when you have a timer on your head and your dm won't let you rest until the end of time. But here? No problem my good sir, please rest in the dungeon, right in front a group of enemy tomb raiders, the tadpole in your head will wait...

OP is right, and dnd rules don't have to be fully transcribed in a video game.

And yet if Larian has dared touch the holy rules to adapt them to the video-game medium, I can't help but think from the previous posts many ppl would have launch a crusade...